Chapter 1312 - 1238 Lying Down
"Impossible."
Yang Yuhui and Xue Dehong hurriedly rushed to Jiang Yuan’s autopsy room.
In a standard autopsy, at least two people are usually present, and often a forensic assistant is required, typically outsourced or temps.
At times like this, the forensic assistant naturally can’t bear the responsibility.
Yang Yuhui is the forensic doctor responsible for the autopsy in the Bishui South Road Park abandoned corpse case. He graduated from the official forensic major of a formal medical university and is a certified forensic doctor in the Zhengguang Bureau, 35 years old this year. His age is not very old, but Yang Yuhui’s experience is already quite extensive, and he has executed and participated in the autopsies of several major cases.
Mistaking the identity of a corpse is definitely an error. On the way over, Yang Yuhui kept recalling this case, and by the time he arrived, his entire face was wrinkled.
"Didn’t you take DNA at the time?" Jiang Yuan first asked Yang Yuhui.
DNA is the gold standard. If the DNA matches, there wouldn’t be so many issues later on.
Yang Yuhui responded with a "hmm" and said, "I took several samples, but I couldn’t extract any DNA. At that time, I specifically took the auditory ossicle from the inner ear and the proximal fingernail, but both yielded no results. I should have taken the cementum from the teeth, but based on the clothes the corpse was wearing and its height, along with the missing person report and the family’s identification, the victim’s identity was confirmed, so no further examination was done... I should have done it once more; it’s not Li Ningxia?"
The auditory ossicle in the inner ear is protected by the temporal bone, so DNA degradation is slower there. DNA can be obtained from positions like these in many slightly decomposed bodies, but this is considered an advanced DNA extraction technology. A regular lab with a budget of three to five million and a couple of fresh graduates is insufficient, and in less developed regions like Shan Nan, samples need to be sent to the provincial bureau.